Details to come.

The Brown Forum for Enterprise and the Rhode Island Business Plan Competition will be hosting the $1,000 Rhode Island Elevator Pitch-Off on November 9th.

Go here for details and to register.

Citizenspeak founder and Providence Geek Jo Lee informs us that technologist George Hotelling has won the Tides Foundation Pizzigati Award for Software in the Public Interest for his work on the CitizenSpeak site and open source module development. The prize includes a $10,000 award, which Jo Lee tells us that George is generously donating half of to CitizenSpeak.

CitizenSpeak is a free email advocacy service for grassroots organizations based in Providence. To launch a free campaign, go to www.citizenspeak.org.

The Brown Forum for Enterprise will be hosting Case Presentations in Information Technology this Thursday the 19th in Kingston at URI’s University Club. Sounds very interesting. From the announcement:

This event will feature cutting-edge internet security and web-based advertising technologies. The CEOs of Activity Central Inc. and IAM Technology Inc. will give an overview of their business plans followed by an interactive discussion between a panel and the CEOs. The panel will evaluate their presentations and give feedback pertaining to their identified market, competitive position, funding strategy, intellectual property strategy, etc.

At the Providence Geeks Dinner earlier tonight, a large, enthusiastic crowd witnessed the unveiling of Flapjax—”a new programming language designed around the demands of modern, client-based Web applications.” Shriram Krishnamurthi led us through a fascinating demo-driven presentation. Suffice it to say, there were a lot of impressed geeks in the audience.

Flapjax is built entirely atop (and is syntactically identical to) JavaScript, and can thus run on traditional Web browsers without the the need for plug-ins or other downloads. The language has five essential features:

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2. It is an event-driven, reactive language, ideal for writing browser-based client applications.
   
3. It provides a reactive, persistent store that automatically updates on all clients sharing the same data.
   
4. It enables convenient sharing of data with other users.
   
5. It implements access-control to channel this sharing.
   
6. It provides libraries to connect to external Web services (thereby enabling client-side mash-ups).
   

Update: As he notes in the comments below, Jim Willis has posted photos of last night’s event here.